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before you senn your kidssofff to school this morning... there are some changes you need to know about.startinn today... dozens of baltimore cityyintersections will no looger have school crossinn gua. in east baltimore with more on wwy the changes were put into pood morning guys,we're live at barclay and 21st. for years... there's been a crossing guard here at this intersection helping kids get to school safely.the guard here innthe afteenoon told us she's had several close calls...but starring today... the kids are on their own. own.the city department of transportation will be removing crossiig guards from intersecttonn.the city says the decision ii based on a

pederal standard... wwich says needed at an intersection if and 350 cars per hour.but on &pthe busy streets of east baltimore... parents say it's &pa matter of life and death. "these kids need a crossing watch kids, they need an adult" child gets hit is the ity going to pay for funeral costs?""a lot f kids are going to get hit, greenmont is one of busiest crosswalkk uttt" parents... the city stands by its decision.we'll have more on their side of the story... croosing guards... coming up next half hour.live in east baltimorr, i'm meean 3 first on fox... new eeails obtained by fox 45... show

schools about reporting crime. crime. last month... we tood you about school officials using in-house referrals... to the books. in a new email... city police say thattdozens of serious felony crime peports... which occurred inside city schools... are incomplete or missing. those reports are used tt deteemine it's unclear if the incomplete reports impacted the investtgation or prrsecution of any crimes. school officiall say they are in the process of searrcinn for the pissing paperwork. aaso first on ffx...a father accused of sttbbing his one year old on to death .... stand ttial after all.will not all. hari close appearee in court thursday... agreeing to enner a guilty plea to first degree murder. in exchange... seetence... wwth 3 years probation. just last year... police found close's one-year- old son stabbed to death. his body... hidden in the basement. 23:14:34 we felt based nnthe amount of evidence that the

state had that ittwas in his 23:15:23 today was an a lea. emotional day in the courtroom emotional and she had every righh to be.23:15:43 i know he's extreeely remorseful it's hissssn at onn years old so :44 :47if closeeviolates his probatiin duringgthat 3 year period... the deal tttes he could be ssnt to prisonnfor life. prosecutors drop the harges in a deadly shooting in cused - pasadena.anne arundel couuty prosecutors say they didn't have enooghh videeceeto &pproceed with the case against daniel savage.the 18-year-old had been charged with firss degrre murder in tte death of matthewwmorrow.he was killed last month... after a house party.proseeutors are moving forwaar with their case against a seconn man... 18-year-old ronald mcleod. at least four people are dead ann 17 others are hurt after a train collides witt a float... during a paraae honoring vetera. veterans.federal officials pill investigate yesterday's crash in midland, texas.police say a freight train hit a

rail crossing.most of the er a veterans... and their signiiicant others. "i ssw the truck crossing the tracks. about halfway across the rackss the gates started coming down. the truck tried other people in front of him out of his wwy. the gates actually hht the first people trailer."a ssokesman for tth tte company says the train was sounding its horn... and the crossing gate and lights were working at theetime. president obama makes his second trip to the northeast since urricann sandy. many parts f the area are stilllrecovering after the storm leveled towns and left areas flooded. flooded.the president touued staten island...one of the areas hardest hit by hurricane sandy.he also stopped at a fema disaster recovery center that provides hot meals and showees and offers victims governmenttheep.pplying for - obama sayss "i promise to everybody that i was sseaking on half of the country when i said we are going to be here

until the re have ffllowed through on that coomitment." commitmeet."margi says, "what do you wann them to do? step it up, step it up. come down here, put on a pair of bootss get on a pair of gloves, gett &pout oo your eight-hundred dollars or whateverrsuit, and a look iill show you my house, come in get a little dirty people don't want a ppt on the back saying 'its gonna be okay,' because itts not." not." new york overnor andree cuomo says he will request 30 billionndollars in federal aid to help rrbuild after sandy. 70-year-old love letters washed ashore by supers storm sandy spaak a search... for owner.a new jersey woman ouu walking a trail following the storm stumbled across the stack of letters.the were wwitten between 19-42 and 19-47... by aawoman and her husband... who was serving in world war two..he woman ho

made the discovery quickly got online and traaked down the couple's family... to tell them about what she found. "it's liie a genealogical gold mine. it's like there's that moment that's lost forevee, and here s something, it's aa gift.""it kind of sends the message that love conquers all, in such devastation, something so delicate just washes ashooe." ashore."it's not clear wwere had them before the storm. it seems somewhat fitting that one of tte biggesttmovies middle of the night... pspecially when yyo consider it ii about vampires. vammires. and werewolves. we're talking about twilight's &pfinal movie! joel d. smmth i liveein white marsh wwere the late nighh show recently starts very soon. good &pmmrning joel d. , what are peopll saying? the twilight saga: the twilight saga: breaking

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3 3 still to ooe... making student more comfortable... with sseeking up in class. plass.the new app that's enhancing the learning experience. changinggmaryland's marijuana laws.the staae lawmakers who are ushing for lighter penalties... for those found in possesiin.

3 3 leealizing marijuana in started after two states voted to approve it.keith daniels wanted to weigh in onnthe issue. issue.. 3 it seemed eaay o find people on it seemed easy it seemeddeasy to find people on the streett of baltimore city to give an

ppinion on this question: shouud marijuana be criminalized, remove the e--- prosecution element from the current laws.........(mr. zaahman) "i wooldn't personally use it, but i feel like if someone wants to, that's their business, it's not y busines.."(mr. ali) "i don't think that it's any greater detriment to society than alcohhl or prescrippion drugg.."((r. przybylski) "in increase the tax base for the city and state governments..." ........the issue f legalizing marijjana, revisited with pot now legal in colorado and washington state.. and ith word thhttthe pressdent obama duuiig a debate in his initial illiiois campaign for u-s senate in 2004. at he timee the president said he was for dd- videoo "but i'm not somebody who believes innthe legalization of marijuana..." .........some maryland baltimmre city delegate curt anderson wants a bill... which includes no arrest, no prosecution..ooly a citation

and fine.(del. anderson) "too getting convictions from are nuisance cases ike these using marijuana and five or sixxyears later,,they can't get into school, they can't get jjbs..".........others including former maryland &pstate police captain, leighh madox....(mmdox) "llgalized, regulated and controlled...." .........madox, whoss a memberr of leap, law enforcement against prohibition, says legalizing marijuana would, among other things, end the violence associated with the drug.((adoox "because it's no longer going tt be cash crop. you're not going to have warehouses full of cash ttat eople want to steal and that peoole want to buy ggns tt protect. we're not seeing people fighhing over alcohol like we did baak in the 1920's...." opponents say marrjuana should it the "gateeay drugg to more harmful illegal drugs. marijjana and crime have been children is growing.according -

to the national institute of drug buse....more than 22- percent of high school seniors the past 30 days...t during - days...áfeeeeá say they've used cigarettes during the past 30 days. days.most people arrested for drug possssion are found with pot.more than 48-percent f northeast are arrested for having marijuana. mariiuana.that's far more than any other drug on the list. straight head... microsoft buys an app... created by a high schooler. schooler.how it chhnges the way... students and teacher inteeact. ((break 3)) [ male announcer ] what can you experience in a seat?

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during the season of audi event. a high school student in virginia has developed an application that's sure to enhance the learning ssudent and teachers coomunicate. mike hydeck expla. &pexplains. he's fouud a way to take the fear out of raising

your hand in class.(nnts)ask your question in the hallway instead.the name came from the idea that some really amazing proffund learning appens outside the classroom in the metaahoricaa hallway. hallway is a social media type site in ann the sitt connectt you anddeventualll around the ol world.you can add an event to thursday, november eeghth and say i have a test and anybody else studying can see that. post your question and get slew of answers froo other students taking the subjjct. you can channe your settings. thomas jefferssn high school senior created the site witt a tj alumm the project had so much promise, microsoft got interestee and got annther teaa from springbrook high schooo in maryland to develop the mobile app. the all- studeet project ii reelly taking off. classes are loaded in, you can either addd them on the website or in the app.every student has ttat one qqestion that seemm so straight forward but you don't

get it and you don't want to be that one student that ddesn't get it. so everyone has that fear and having an abblishes that fear is really welcoming to students. invessors were really welcooing too. he may only be &p17 but sean mcelrath has already made pitches to venture capitalists and angel investors. listen to how it went. we alked in wanting 'x' dollars anddcame out oversubscrrbed with 10 times for so... hallway will bb available sometime eerly next year. microsoft is makinn it a part of tte launch witt windows 8. coming up... a bailout of the percent..he surprise of a rcent- &plifetime that'' coming to man 3 bth - epa secret emails federal laa reeuires executive branch personnel to use

conduct official busiiess. any employee who cooducts government business on personal email accounts must make those accoonts available to their agency.and aal accounts must be available to freedom offinformation act &prequests.llsa jackson, the pdministrator oo thh environmental protection agenny, hassppllee a fast one. she has been using an epa email account under aa akee name to avoid complying wwth foia requuets. apparently several other seniorrepa staff are doing likewise.jackson's aliis is the name "riihard windsor." jackson allegedly uses this account to conduct epa business she wants to epa gladly responds to foia requests for email in jackson's name because the questionable activity takes placeein the fake name account. thissapparent violation of federalllaw was iscovered by ttink tank. cei discovered jackson is the seeond epa head to use an email account in a fake name. carole brownerr phe epa chief under biil

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